Biography
William Reynolds was prosecuted for disorderly conduct after the Oakland County hunger march of October 15, 1931 in Michigan. The January 5, 1932 Daily Worker describes police arresting and beating marchers in Pontiac, and a five-day trial ending in a ninety-day county-jail sentence. The prosecution read Communist Party unemployment directives, Daily Worker material and Reynolds’s writing into the record, questioned his Communist membership and earlier 1922 Bridgman arrest, and was opposed by Pontiac attorney Oliver Green. The account presents the case as repression of unemployed-worker organizing. The ninety days is imposed punishment, with actual completed service and physical discharge unverified; Oakland County here is Michigan, not Oakland, California. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n004-NY-jan-05-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4
The September 26 dispatch reports their arrest Saturday night, September 24, 1932 at a Communist election rally in Vandyke after Reynolds refused to omit Hoover and Governor Brucker from his speech. It identifies Bresseau as the Macomb County treasurer candidate. The article reports subsequent release; an exact discharge timestamp or complete duration is not assigned. Daily Worker, September 27, 1932, original PDF page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n231-NY-sep-27-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
